EP2826440A1 - Dental flask - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a dental flask comprising a cavity apt to receive a three-dimensional reproduction of a dental cast characterizing in that it comprises means for locking the three-dimensional reproduction inside the cavity.
- Dental flasks are devices which, as described in the state of art, are used for developing dental prostheses, such as for example prostheses of flexible type.
- the manufacturing of prostheses in practical terms is performed by the dental technician by means of methods providing a series of operative passages involving indeed the use of dental flasks.
- the operations which usually are performed for manufacturing the prostheses provide as first passage the fact of obtaining a cast of the patient's dental arches therefrom then the three-dimensional model, made of plaster of the arches themselves is developed.
- the model made of plaster is subsequently positioned in a dental flask and immobilized therein by means of using liquid plaster.
- the solidification of the plaster which, in reality, surrounds the model existing in the flask, allows locking and stabilizing the dental model in the device depending upon the subsequent passages aiming at the real manufacturing of the prosthesis.
- the injection in the flask of plastic materials suitable to be used for the dental prostheses falls among the operative processes performed after the plaster solidification.
- the passage of locking the model in the flask requires, as shown above, the use of plaster in quantities varying mainly from about 200 to 300 grams for each prosthesis to be manufactured and long time, more or less, for the solidification of the plaster itself.
- the method even provides a passage of flasking needed for recovering the prosthesis which has been manufactured from the flask.
- the flasking consists in extracting the dental prosthesis from a flask which, due to the effect of the previous operative passages, is actually wholly filled-up with plaster. For this reason, the recovery of the dental prosthesis necessarily passes through the plaster rupture which, currently, is performed mechanically by using a hammer. The flasking then results to be a delicate passage since the plaster rupture, when it is performed not correctly, can determine damages to the just manufactured prosthesis.
- the need of waiting for the plaster solidification has as disadvantage that of requesting long time, more or less, with phases of not effectiveness of the technician and consequent time lengthening for manufacturing the dental prostheses.
- one of the main disadvantages associated to the used of known flasks is linked to the delicate flasking procedure which, consisting as already said in breaking the solidified plaster with a hammer, can determine a damage of the manufactured prosthesis.
- An object of the present invention is to propose a new and original solution to the disadvantages existing in the known state of art.
- a first object of the present description therefore is a dental flask as defined in the independent claim 1.
- a second object of the present description is a method for manufacturing dental prostheses using a dental flask as herein described.
- An additional object of the present description is a kit for manufacturing dental prostheses comprising at least a flask as herein described.
- the present description relates to a dental flask which, differently from the flasks described in the state of art, among its structural/constitutive components has means for locking a three-dimensional representation of one or both dental arches without the need of using plaster or however any material which is not structural part of the flask.
- the flask subject of the present description allows then to manufacture prostheses, preferably prostheses of flexible type, without the need of using plaster, thus reducing the time for manufacturing the prostheses and even the risk of causing damages to the prosthesis during the flasking phase.
- the flask comprises locking means allowing to lock and stabilize the dental model in the flask.
- the main advantage consists in that for manufacturing dental prostheses it is no more necessary the use of plaster with consequent obtaining of prostheses in shorter time than those required with the use of known flasks. Furthermore, the problem related to the disposal as "special waste" of the used plaster is removed with the dental flasks described herein with consequent economic and environmental advantage.
- the invention subject of the present description characterizes for the undoubted advantages with respect to the common dental flasks.
- the dental flasks are devices which can be used for manufacturing dental prostheses.
- the flask 1 of the invention comprises a cavity 2 apt to receive a three-dimensional reproduction of a dental cast 3.
- the flask 1 comprises an upper portion S (acting as closing element) and a lower portion I able to cooperate there between in order to allow closing the flask itself, for example, during the phases of injecting the plastic material for manufacturing the dental prostheses.
- the cavity 2 wherein the reproduction 3 is housed is defined by the side walls of the lower portion I.
- such side walls of the lower portion I are structurally continuous walls so that, during the phases of injecting the plastic material there is no discharge of the same from the flask itself.
- the three-dimensional model is meant, preferably made of plaster, of the arch or the dental arch which usually the dental technician develops starting from the casts of teeth and gingivae obtained by filling-up a "cast-bearing spoon", for example, with alginate and inserting the same in the mouth of the patient.
- the flask 1 of the invention characterizes in that it comprises among its structural elements means 4 for locking the reproduction 3 inside the cavity 2.
- the function of the locking means 4 consists in stabilizing and fixing the three-dimensional model 3 inside the cavity 2 so that it cannot move, shift inside the flask 1 during the subsequent phases aimed at manufacturing the prostheses.
- the locking means 4 can comprise at least a screw 4 and at least one contact surface 5.
- said at least one screw 4 and said at least one contact surface 5 are apt to cooperate so as to achieve a locking seat for the reproduction 3 inside the cavity 2.
- At least a screw 4 and at least one contact surface 5 are present among the structural elements of the flask 1 and the function thereof is to create a housing for locking and stabilizing the three-dimensional model 3 inside the cavity 2.
- the number of screws 4 and the number of contact surfaces 5 existing in the flask 1 could vary to guarantee a suitable stabilization of the model 3 in the cavity 2 according to different operating needs, such as for example, different sizes of the three-dimensional manufacturing 3.
- said at least one screw 4 is a screw apt to engage a corresponding thread present in the flask 1.
- said at least a thread could be present in any point of the flask both in the portion comprising the cavity wherein the three-dimensional model is housed as well in the upper counterpart.
- said at least one screw can protrude inside the cavity 2 by a length L adjustable according to the operating needs.
- the length L will result to be longer or shorter according to the size of the three-dimensional representation 3 and it could further vary according to the different operative needs requested during the manufacturing of the prosthesis.
- the locking means 4 can even comprise elements 6 for supporting said at least screw 4 to the reproduction 3. In this case said at least one screw 4 then will be indirectly in contact with the three-dimensional model 3 by means of the element 6, as shown in figure 4 and 5 .
- Such support elements 6 can be designed in any material and shape considered suitable for the person skilled in the art to the above-described function.
- the support elements 6 can be nuts, plates, for example made of metal but not only this, having on one side a thread apt to receive the screw 4 and on the opposite side a preferably convex surface, suitable to contact firmly the three-dimensional model.
- a surface for stopping in this case the three-dimensional model 3 is meant.
- the surface 5 can be substantially or comprise the peripheral surface of the cavity 2 or comprise stopping means 7, as shown in figure 3 .
- the person skilled in the art will be able, thanks to his/her average knowledge, to design the stopping means 7 based upon the function carried out thereby and indicated above.
- the flask 1 represented in figures 1 , 2 , 4 and 5 , there are two screws 4, as described above.
- the two screws will be present each one on opposite sides with respect to a sagittal plane A of the flask 1.
- one single contact surface 5 for the reproduction 3 is provided, which can comprise or coincide with a wall of the cavity 2.
- the two screws 4 and the contact surface are arranged in the flask 1 or however around said representation 3 in angularly equidistant way.
- the seat for locking the reproduction 3 inside said cavity 2 is obtained thanks to the cooperation between said two screws 4 and one single contact surface 5.
- the flask 1 represented in figure 3 there are two contact surfaces 5 and a screw 4 of the above-described type.
- the two contact surfaces 5 will be present each one on opposite sides with respect to the sagittal plane A of the flask 1.
- the two contact surfaces 5 and the screw 4 are arranged in the flask 1 or however around said representation 3 in angularly equidistant way.
- the two screws 4 and the contact surface are arranged in the flask 1 or however around said representation 3 in angularly equidistant way.
- one single screw is provided 4 and therefore, the seat for locking the reproduction 3 inside said cavity 2 is obtained thanks to the cooperation between said two contact surfaces 5 and one single screw 4.
- the flask 1 preferably is a flask apt to be filled-up/used with a polymerizable material or is a flask used for manufacturing dental prostheses of flexible type.
- the polymerizable material therewith the flask 1 could be filled-up/used is a thermoplastic material for dental use or thermoplastic material commonly used for manufacturing flexible prostheses, such as for example, dental resins.
- the subject of the present invention is also a method for manufacturing dental prostheses using a dental flask 1.
- such method characterizes in that the passage of locking and stabilizing the three-dimensional model 3 of the dental arch inside the flask 1 takes place substantially by exploiting at least a screw 4 and at least one contact surface 5 existing as structural elements of the flask 1.
- such method does not provide that the passage for locking and stabilizing the three-dimensional model 3 inside the flask 1 is performed by means of casting liquid plaster and hardening the plaster itself.
- a flasking passage by means of using a hammer or more generally tools suitable to the rupture of the plaster itself is neither provided.
- the flasking takes place by simply slackening the screws 4 which keep the three-dimensional model 3 locked and stabilized.
- kits for manufacturing dental prostheses comprising a flask 1 according to the invention and means suitable for manufacturing said prostheses.
- Such means can be one or more aliquot parts of the thermoplastic material, latch for inserting the thermoplastic material in the flask itself, one or more aliquot parts of insulating silicone apt to cover the three-dimensional model before inserting the thermoplastic material, resin teeth, etc.
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Abstract
-a cavity (2) defined by the side walls of said flask (1) apt to receive a three-dimensional reproduction of a dental cast (3) and to be filled up with a polymerizable material,
- means (4) for locking said reproduction (3) inside said cavity (2), said locking means (4) comprising:
- at least one screw apt to engage a corresponding thread made through side walls of said flask (1) so as to protrude inside said cavity (2) by an adjustable length (L); and
- at least one contact surface (5) for said reproduction (3); said contact surface consisting of a peripheral surface of said cavity (2);
- support elements (6) of said screw with said reproduction (3);
wherein said at least one screw and said at least one contact surface are apt to cooperate so as to achieve a locking seat for said reproduction (3) inside said cavity (2).
Description
- The present invention relates to a dental flask comprising a cavity apt to receive a three-dimensional reproduction of a dental cast characterizing in that it comprises means for locking the three-dimensional reproduction inside the cavity.
- Dental flasks are devices which, as described in the state of art, are used for developing dental prostheses, such as for example prostheses of flexible type. The manufacturing of prostheses in practical terms is performed by the dental technician by means of methods providing a series of operative passages involving indeed the use of dental flasks. In particular, the operations which usually are performed for manufacturing the prostheses provide as first passage the fact of obtaining a cast of the patient's dental arches therefrom then the three-dimensional model, made of plaster of the arches themselves is developed.
- The model made of plaster is subsequently positioned in a dental flask and immobilized therein by means of using liquid plaster. The solidification of the plaster which, in reality, surrounds the model existing in the flask, allows locking and stabilizing the dental model in the device depending upon the subsequent passages aiming at the real manufacturing of the prosthesis. In particular, as it is known to the person skilled in the art, the injection in the flask of plastic materials suitable to be used for the dental prostheses falls among the operative processes performed after the plaster solidification.
- From the operative point of view, the passage of locking the model in the flask requires, as shown above, the use of plaster in quantities varying mainly from about 200 to 300 grams for each prosthesis to be manufactured and long time, more or less, for the solidification of the plaster itself. Furthermore, as it is known to the person skilled in the art, the method even provides a passage of flasking needed for recovering the prosthesis which has been manufactured from the flask. In particular, the flasking consists in extracting the dental prosthesis from a flask which, due to the effect of the previous operative passages, is actually wholly filled-up with plaster. For this reason, the recovery of the dental prosthesis necessarily passes through the plaster rupture which, currently, is performed mechanically by using a hammer. The flasking then results to be a delicate passage since the plaster rupture, when it is performed not correctly, can determine damages to the just manufactured prosthesis.
- In view of what described in the known state of art and what illustrated above, the methods for implementing dental prostheses using the current flasks have then a series of operative disadvantages.
- In particular, several of these disadvantages are due to the use of plaster for stabilizing the three-dimensional model inside the flask. In fact, if one considers that an average dental laboratory develops about an average of 6 flasks per day and that for each flask an average of 250 grams of plaster is needed, it follows that the average used quantity of plaster is in reality an important quantity, in the order of about 30-33 Kg each month. Furthermore, the disposal of the used plaster is rather problematic since it is classified as "special waste" which has to be disposed of according to precise procedures and with high costs falling on the expenses for handling the dental laboratory. Moreover, the need of waiting for the plaster solidification has as disadvantage that of requesting long time, more or less, with phases of not effectiveness of the technician and consequent time lengthening for manufacturing the dental prostheses. Furthermore, one of the main disadvantages associated to the used of known flasks is linked to the delicate flasking procedure which, consisting as already said in breaking the solidified plaster with a hammer, can determine a damage of the manufactured prosthesis.
- An object of the present invention is to propose a new and original solution to the disadvantages existing in the known state of art.
- A first object of the present description therefore is a dental flask as defined in the
independent claim 1. - A second object of the present description is a method for manufacturing dental prostheses using a dental flask as herein described.
- An additional object of the present description is a kit for manufacturing dental prostheses comprising at least a flask as herein described.
- Preferred features of the subject of the present description are reported in the depending claims.
- In particular, the present description relates to a dental flask which, differently from the flasks described in the state of art, among its structural/constitutive components has means for locking a three-dimensional representation of one or both dental arches without the need of using plaster or however any material which is not structural part of the flask.
- The flask subject of the present description allows then to manufacture prostheses, preferably prostheses of flexible type, without the need of using plaster, thus reducing the time for manufacturing the prostheses and even the risk of causing damages to the prosthesis during the flasking phase. In particular, such advantages are reached thanks to the fact that, structurally, the flask comprises locking means allowing to lock and stabilize the dental model in the flask.
- The main advantage, as already said, consists in that for manufacturing dental prostheses it is no more necessary the use of plaster with consequent obtaining of prostheses in shorter time than those required with the use of known flasks. Furthermore, the problem related to the disposal as "special waste" of the used plaster is removed with the dental flasks described herein with consequent economic and environmental advantage.
- For what said above, the invention subject of the present description then characterizes for the undoubted advantages with respect to the common dental flasks.
- Additional advantages, as well as the features and use modes of the present invention, will result evident from the following detailed description related to its possible embodiments, shown by way of example and not for limitative purpose, by making reference to the figures of the enclosed drawings, wherein :
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figure 1 shows a perspective view of the outside of an embodiment of the flask according to the present invention; -
figure 2 represents a perspective view from the top of the inside of an embodiment of the flask according to the present invention, -
figure 3 represents a perspective view from the top of the inside of an embodiment of the flask according to the present invention, -
figure 4 represents a perspective front view of the inside of an embodiment of the flask according to the present invention. -
figure 5 represents a perspective view from the top of the inside of an embodiment of the flask according to the present invention. - Hereinafter in the description, the present invention will be described with reference to the above-mentioned figures.
- The subject of the present description is then a
dental flask 1. - The dental flasks, as even said above, are devices which can be used for manufacturing dental prostheses.
- In particular, the
flask 1 of the invention, analogously to the known flasks, comprises acavity 2 apt to receive a three-dimensional reproduction of adental cast 3. As shown infigure 1 , theflask 1 comprises an upper portion S (acting as closing element) and a lower portion I able to cooperate there between in order to allow closing the flask itself, for example, during the phases of injecting the plastic material for manufacturing the dental prostheses. In an embodiment of the invention, thecavity 2 wherein thereproduction 3 is housed, is defined by the side walls of the lower portion I. Preferably, such side walls of the lower portion I are structurally continuous walls so that, during the phases of injecting the plastic material there is no discharge of the same from the flask itself. Under three-dimensional reproduction of a dental cast in the present description the three-dimensional model is meant, preferably made of plaster, of the arch or the dental arch which usually the dental technician develops starting from the casts of teeth and gingivae obtained by filling-up a "cast-bearing spoon", for example, with alginate and inserting the same in the mouth of the patient. - The
flask 1 of the invention characterizes in that it comprises among its structural elements means 4 for locking thereproduction 3 inside thecavity 2. - As the flasks are widely known and routinely used by the dental technicians, it does not result to be necessary describing in details all structural elements defining the
flask 1 of the invention since it could have the same structural features of the common flasks but it differs therefrom due to the presence of locking means 4 as described hereinafter. - In particular, the function of the locking means 4 consists in stabilizing and fixing the three-
dimensional model 3 inside thecavity 2 so that it cannot move, shift inside theflask 1 during the subsequent phases aimed at manufacturing the prostheses. - In an embodiment of the present invention the locking means 4, as shown in
figures 1-5 , can comprise at least a screw 4 and at least onecontact surface 5. In particular, said at least one screw 4 and said at least onecontact surface 5 are apt to cooperate so as to achieve a locking seat for thereproduction 3 inside thecavity 2. - In other terms, then, at least a screw 4 and at least one
contact surface 5 are present among the structural elements of theflask 1 and the function thereof is to create a housing for locking and stabilizing the three-dimensional model 3 inside thecavity 2. The number of screws 4 and the number ofcontact surfaces 5 existing in theflask 1 could vary to guarantee a suitable stabilization of themodel 3 in thecavity 2 according to different operating needs, such as for example, different sizes of the three-dimensional manufacturing 3. - In particular, said at least one screw 4 is a screw apt to engage a corresponding thread present in the
flask 1. In particular, said at least a thread could be present in any point of the flask both in the portion comprising the cavity wherein the three-dimensional model is housed as well in the upper counterpart. As represented infigures 2-5 , said at least one screw can protrude inside thecavity 2 by a length L adjustable according to the operating needs. By purely way of example and not for limitative purpose, the length L will result to be longer or shorter according to the size of the three-dimensional representation 3 and it could further vary according to the different operative needs requested during the manufacturing of the prosthesis. Furthermore, the locking means 4 can even compriseelements 6 for supporting said at least screw 4 to thereproduction 3. In this case said at least one screw 4 then will be indirectly in contact with the three-dimensional model 3 by means of theelement 6, as shown infigure 4 and5 . -
Such support elements 6 can be designed in any material and shape considered suitable for the person skilled in the art to the above-described function. By way of example thesupport elements 6 can be nuts, plates, for example made of metal but not only this, having on one side a thread apt to receive the screw 4 and on the opposite side a preferably convex surface, suitable to contact firmly the three-dimensional model. - Under the
term contact surface 5 in the present description a surface for stopping in this case the three-dimensional model 3 is meant. Thesurface 5 can be substantially or comprise the peripheral surface of thecavity 2 or comprise stopping means 7, as shown infigure 3 . The person skilled in the art will be able, thanks to his/her average knowledge, to design the stopping means 7 based upon the function carried out thereby and indicated above. - In an embodiment of the
flask 1, represented infigures 1 ,2 ,4 and5 , there are two screws 4, as described above. In particular, as shown infigure 2 the two screws will be present each one on opposite sides with respect to a sagittal plane A of theflask 1. Furthermore, in this embodiment onesingle contact surface 5 for thereproduction 3 is provided, which can comprise or coincide with a wall of thecavity 2. In a particularly advantageous way, the two screws 4 and the contact surface are arranged in theflask 1 or however around saidrepresentation 3 in angularly equidistant way. - In this case then the seat for locking the
reproduction 3 inside saidcavity 2 is obtained thanks to the cooperation between said two screws 4 and onesingle contact surface 5. In another embodiment of theflask 1, represented infigure 3 there are twocontact surfaces 5 and a screw 4 of the above-described type. In particular, as shown infigure 3 the twocontact surfaces 5 will be present each one on opposite sides with respect to the sagittal plane A of theflask 1. - In particularly advantageous way, the two
contact surfaces 5 and the screw 4 are arranged in theflask 1 or however around saidrepresentation 3 in angularly equidistant way. In particularly advantageous way the two screws 4 and the contact surface are arranged in theflask 1 or however around saidrepresentation 3 in angularly equidistant way. - In this embodiment, as already said, one single screw is provided 4 and therefore, the seat for locking the
reproduction 3 inside saidcavity 2 is obtained thanks to the cooperation between said twocontact surfaces 5 and one single screw 4. - The above-described embodiments are exemplifying embodiments of the
flask 1 of the invention and therefore it is to be meant thatflasks 1 with a number of screws 4 and/orcontact surfaces 5 different from the herein precisely defined one, fall within the requested protection scope. - The
flask 1 preferably is a flask apt to be filled-up/used with a polymerizable material or is a flask used for manufacturing dental prostheses of flexible type. By purely way of example, the polymerizable material therewith theflask 1 could be filled-up/used is a thermoplastic material for dental use or thermoplastic material commonly used for manufacturing flexible prostheses, such as for example, dental resins. - The subject of the present invention is also a method for manufacturing dental prostheses using a
dental flask 1. In particular, such method characterizes in that the passage of locking and stabilizing the three-dimensional model 3 of the dental arch inside theflask 1 takes place substantially by exploiting at least a screw 4 and at least onecontact surface 5 existing as structural elements of theflask 1. In other terms such method does not provide that the passage for locking and stabilizing the three-dimensional model 3 inside theflask 1 is performed by means of casting liquid plaster and hardening the plaster itself. Furthermore, a flasking passage by means of using a hammer or more generally tools suitable to the rupture of the plaster itself is neither provided. In the herein described method, in fact, the flasking takes place by simply slackening the screws 4 which keep the three-dimensional model 3 locked and stabilized. - Additional object of the present invention is a kit for manufacturing dental prostheses comprising a
flask 1 according to the invention and means suitable for manufacturing said prostheses. Such means, by way of example and not for limitative purpose, can be one or more aliquot parts of the thermoplastic material, latch for inserting the thermoplastic material in the flask itself, one or more aliquot parts of insulating silicone apt to cover the three-dimensional model before inserting the thermoplastic material, resin teeth, etc. - The present invention has been so far described with reference to preferred embodiments thereof. It is to be meant that other embodiments belonging to the same inventive core may exists, all within the protection scope of the here-below reported claims.
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- A dental flask (1) comprising- a cavity (2) defined by the side walls of said flask (1) apt to receive a three-dimensional reproduction of a dental cast (3) and to be filled with a polymerizable material,- locking means (4) of said reproduction (3) inside said cavity (2), said locking means (4) comprising:- at least one screw apt to engage a corresponding thread made through side walls of said flask (1) so as to protrude inside said cavity (2) of an adjustable length (L); and- at least one contact surface (5) for said reproduction (3); said contact surface consisting of a peripheral surface of said cavity (2);- support elements (6) of said screw with said reproduction (3).
wherein said at least one screw and said at least one contact surface are apt to cooperate so as to achieve a locking seat for said reproduction (3) inside said cavity (2). - The flask (1) according to claim 1, said locking means (4) comprises:- two screws apt to engage two corresponding threads of the flask (1) each made on opposite sides with respect to a sagittal plane (A) of said flask (1) and so as to both protrude inside said cavity (2) of an adjustable length; e- a contact surface (5) for said reproduction (3).
- The flask (1) according to claim 1, said locking means (4) comprises:- a screw apt to engage a corresponding thread of the flask (1) so as to protrude inside said cavity (2) of an adjustable length; and- two contact surfaces (5) for said reproduction (3) each made on opposite sides of a sagittal plane of said flask (1).
- The flask (1) according to claim 2 or 3, wherein said two screws and said contact surface or said screw and said two contact surfaces are angularly equidistant.
- The flask (1) according to any of the claims 1 to 4, wherein said polymerizable material is a thermoplastic material for dental use.
- Method for manufacturing dental prostheses using a dental flask (1) according to any of claims 1 to 5.
- Kit for manufacturing of dental prostheses comprising at least one dental flask (1) according to any of claims 1 to 5 and means suitable for manufacturing said prostheses.
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